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title: Augustine and Aquinas taught that every lie is wrong; many others po… — Olympiad dilemmas: friends, truth and telling · tree and pragmatics
description: Augustine and Aquinas taught that every lie is wrong; many others point to Rahab and the midwives; all agree truthfulness is God's will. Who acts: Augustine, lie, many others, all. A sentence of the lesson «Olympiad dilemmas: friends, truth and telling» of the religion ethics course of Mova's primar
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# Olympiad dilemmas: friends, truth and telling, sentence 16

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Augustine and Aquinas taught that every lie is wrong; many others point to Rahab and the midwives; all agree truthfulness is God's will.

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**Who acts:** Augustine, lie, many others, all, truthfulness · **What happens:** teach, be, point, agree, will · **To what, where:** Rahab · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Olympiad dilemmas: friends, truth and telling» of the religion ethics course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Augustine, lie, many others, all), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:religion-ethics:099-olympiad-dilemmas-friends-truth-and-telling.lesson:16
# text = Augustine and Aquinas taught that every lie is wrong; many others point to Rahab and the midwives; all agree truthfulness is God's will.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = religion-ethics
# lesson = 099-olympiad-dilemmas-friends-truth-and-telling.lesson
# annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R3-conj-first ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2
1	Augustine	Augustine	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	Aquinas	Aquinas	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
4	taught	teach	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
6	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	7	det	_	_
7	lie	lie	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
8	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
9	wrong	wrong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	ccomp	_	_
10	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	_
11	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	others	other	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj	_	_
13	point	point	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:conj
14	to	to	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	Rahab	Rahab	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	midwives	midwife	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	conj	_	_
19	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	21	nsubj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=21:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_
21	agree	agree	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=13:conj
22	truthfulness	truthfulness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
23	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	cop	_	_
24	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	nmod:poss	_	_
25	's	's	PART	POS	_	24	case	_	_
26	will	will	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	ccomp	_	_
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **teach** *speech: other* | past | Augustine and Aquinas |  |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** | present | every lie |  |  |  |  | wrong *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **point** | present | many others |  | Rahab and the midwives |  |  |  | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to rahab=Recipient |
| 4 | **agree** *speech: agree* | present | all |  |  |  |  |  | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | 's God | tree rules |
| 6 | **will** |  | truthfulness |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Licence: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/)**, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, `mova-school-agreed-en.conllu`) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:religion-ethics:099-olympiad-dilemmas-friends-truth-and-telling.lesson:16`.

**The tree:** Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R3-conj-first ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2. **The frames** are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (`prag`) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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